July 15th, 2010

Thanks to Janrain for the Lunch

I’m not very good at counting, sadly, so it might have been more. Plus, as always, people wandered in and out, making a total count difficult.

Although it was a bit crowded and noisy at times, pockets of conversation were happening all over the office, in the hallway, by the elevator and the name tag tables, in the atrium, in the conference rooms.

This was great to see, as were lots of new faces.

Lunch 2.0 has evolved to include a nucleus of regulars, plus an ever-expanding mix of new people brought in by curiosity, by interest in the host, and by colleagues heading to lunch.

And this is why we like it.

Back to Janrain, they had planned to have CEO, Brian Kissel (@bkkisel) say a few words, but they opted to let the ad hoc conversation flow. I noticed several Janrain employees milling around, chatting with people, so I’m guessing they were able to cover as much ground that way.
Not much else to report. Seemed like everyone had a good time, and based on the post event tweets, it looks like Lunch 2.0 brought some new people together and reconnected some others.

I’m always looking for hosts, so if you’re interested or know someone who might be interested in hosting a Lunch 2.0, drop a comment, hit me up on Twitter (@jkuramot), or find me at a Lunch 2.0, if you want to chat IRL.

Thanks for attending and the write up Jake. Yes, we had intended to give a brief history of Janrain and how we’re helping our clients leverage social networks and user-managed identity to project their brands, drive qualified traffic to their websites, and increase customer registrations and logins.

Unfortunately we don’t have a big enough space to get 100 folks all in the same room, so instead the entire Janrain team, including me, circulated around and talked with individuals and small groups.